Children's Hospice - Noteworthy Quotations

Here are twenty-one lines from Children's Hospice that aren't about dogs shitting, women being smacked by chair legs, rotting babies being torn up and chewed or naked boys eating fish out of bins.


"If I were a thousand times more intelligent, and if I were a thousand times more beautiful, then maybe I could be her.  But as it stands I have to make do simply being with her, which is hardly a poor compromise."

"Mummy - the conduit for all of Little Baby Victor's future fallibility where daddy's nine-month-passed euphoric release signalled the passing of his accountability."

"Fatherhood truly makes a man himself."

"Her boy, her joy, a greater melody than ever she created on that piano."

"Oh if he were truly absent this would be a happy home, but his vacancy is just of the heart and this is a Hell house now."

"Guilt is a paralytic in action and cowardice is a motivator in silence."

"The only word that gets around is the word of man."

"The elements hold no such grace against the damned."

"I'm not a liar anymore.  But I'm still a killer."

"She just wants to be home.  But home is where the heart is and the where the bloody hell can that be now?"

"Little things have big effects on the over-aware state of mind that the witching hour brings to the sleepless."

"Must men prove the worth of their sex by denying the right of it to others who simply want to get by?"

"Snuff it in the dark or snuff it in the light, what difference does it make?"

"Hope is like sugar to a baby boy; give him too much and he'll climb the bloody walls."

"All children die."

"January is the very worst time of year and one which we all bafflingly herald the arrival of with merriment and midnight kisses."

"Who they were in life can not matter any more for all they know now is pain untold and unending and when pain is all there is to be known then self becomes absent."

"Killing's a sin, whoever you kill.  Them's God's rules."

"You aborted the second coming before he could teach us things and you looked your abortion in the eye as you did so."

"Man is the creator but also the destroyer.  Man destroys himself.  Woman is the giver of life and seldom the brute force and here she is alive and well!"

"Maybe my marrow heart will get the better of me!  Maybe the muscle - the vessel - the withered, pulsing hunk of meat - will finally let me sleep!"